Jean Benear
Dec 27, 2014
Betty Jean (Nelson) Benear, the only child of Harry "Mike" and Dora Dean Dakin Nelson, made her entrance into the world on Easter Sunday, April 4, 1926. Raised in Bartlesville, OK. Jean, inspired by her dad, an engineer and inventor in the oil and gas industry, and her mother, a calculus teacher and designer, excelled in the business of schooling....
Hilary Kay Andrews
Dec 26, 2014
Hilary Andrews, 35, while at home, had a catastrophic brain aneurysm on Christmas night 2014 that left her unresponsive. Efforts to revive her continued unsuccessfully throughout the night. She was born in Casper Wyoming and lived there until she was ten, where she was a good little snow skier and Brownie. She moved to Edmond Oklahoma where she graduated from...
Paul B. Ridlon
Dec 24, 2014
Paul Benjamin Ridlon was born November 1, 1921, in Fredonia, Kansas, to Benjamin Harrison Ridlon and Anna Mae Duckworth. He was the second of five children, the eldest son. Paul grew up on the family's farm, on land which had been homesteaded by his father and his father's four brothers. He attended Middletown Elementary School and Coyville High School, where...
Kirk Bryan Edwards
Dec 22, 2014
Kirk Bryan Edwards passed away on December 22nd, 2014 from cardiac arrest. Kirk was born on April 14th, 1958, in Tulsa, Oklahoma; he was 56. He graduated from Jenks High in 1976. Kirk spent 10 years building homes along side his father with Creative Homes, Inc. In 1992, he decided to make his permanent home in beautiful Northeastern Oklahoma, in...
John Albert Hayes
Dec 19, 2014
The world is a sadder place today with the loss of John A. Hayes, 93, who passed away peacefully from congestive heart failure on December 19, 2014. John leaves behind his beloved wife of 67 years, Helen Buthod Hayes; eight children and their spouses, Kathleen Hayes Allen and Bill, Kevin Hayes and Janet, Robert Hayes and Kathryn, Susan Hayes Scott...
Celia "Joy" Bankoff
Dec 17, 2014
Celia Joy Bankoff, b. Nov. 27, 1924, d. Dec. 17, 2014. When Joy Bankoff was born 90 years ago they threw a parade. In fact, it was the inaugural Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, but in characteristic fashion Joy claimed it as her own. Joy was the daughter of the late Leon and Hattie Heyman of Tulsa. She was married to...
Dorothy Mendez
Dec 15, 2014
Dorothy Mendez was born on February 6, 1935 went to be with the Lord on December 15, 2014 at the age of 79. She was preceded in death by her son, Charlie. She is survived by her spouse; Socorro Mendez; her six children, Kenneth, Pauline, Sally, Robert, Rosemary and Julie; 18 grandchildren; and, 14 great-grandchildren. She is also survived by;...
Ruth Anna Grindstaff Sturgeon
Dec 15, 2014
Ruth Anna Grindstaff Sturgeon, 72, went home to be with her Heavenly Father on Monday, December 15, 2014 at her home in Tulsa, Oklahoma after a lengthy illness. Mrs. Sturgeon was born May 19, 1942 to Thomas Haze Grindstaff and Lula Pearl Conrad Grindstaff in Patton, Missouri, the fifth of eight children. She graduated from Fredericktown High School in Fredericktown,...
Claire Marie Ebinger
Dec 14, 2014
Claire Marie Hemingway EbingerMarch 7, 1930 – December 14, 2014 Claire, the daughter of Edmond and Edmay (Burke) Gogan of Lynn, Massachusetts, died peacefully in her sleep on Sunday, December 14th, when our merciful Lord spared her from illness and suffering and welcomed her into His loving arms. Claire, along with her husband John Hemingway, raised their three children in...
Robert Curtin Atcheson
Dec 14, 2014
Robert Curtin Atcheson died on 12/14/2014 in Vian, Oklahoma, from complications of kidney disease He was 75. At the time of his death, he was a resident of the Vian Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Vian, He was born on 9/24/1939 in Houston, Texas, and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, by his parents, William H. and Dorothy E. (Williams) Atcheson. Bob...
Shirley W. Shelnutt
Dec 8, 2014
Shelnutt, Shirley W., 82, died December 8th, 2014 in Tulsa OK. Originally from Georgia, she moved to Tulsa to be close to her daughter and family. She was retired from a career as a secretary for the Secretary of the Georgia State Senate and was a talented china painter, church choir member and Sunday School teacher, loving mother to her...
Betsy Sokol
Dec 8, 2014
Bette Lynn Sokol (Betsy Sokol), 68, passed away at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas on December 8th, 2014, from complications related to leukemia. This was Betsy's third bout with cancer, previously surviving colon cancer and bone cancer. Betsy was a vibrant wife, mother, grandmother, sister and daughter. She took every curveball that life handed her was able to...
Catherine T. Hill
Dec 6, 2014
Catherine T. Hill, 91, passed away on December 6, 2014. She is survived by her sons, Robert Hill and wife Elizabeth of Amargosa, Nevada, Dr. Gregory Hill and wife Cynthia of Tulsa, Oklahoma and daughter, Katherine Hill of Mahwah, New Jersey; Grandchildren, Robert Hill, Las Vegas Nevada, Jordan Hill, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Jennifer Chase, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma and Victoria Hill,...
Rev. William J. Swift
Dec 5, 2014
Rev. William J. Swift, a retired priest of the Diocese of Tulsa, died peacefully on December 5th, 2014. He was born in Bartlesville, OK on December 29th, 1919 to Frank and Helen Swift. He was preceded in death by his parents and his brothers, F.W. and Thomas Swift. His is survived by his sister, Sister Mary Grace Swift, O.S.U. of...
William John Swift
Dec 5, 2014
Rev. William J. Swift, a retired priest of the Diocese of Tulsa, died peacefully on December 5th, 2014. He was born in Bartlesville, OK on December 29th, 1919 to Frank and Helen Swift. He was preceded in death by his parents and his brothers, F.W. and Thomas Swift. His is survived by his sister, Sister Mary Grace Swift, O.S.U. of...
Mary Ann Wilcox
Dec 1, 2014
Mary Ann L. "Maw" Wilcox, 90, passed away Monday, December 1st, 2014 in Tulsa, OK with her family at her side. She was born on October 17th, 1924 in Tulsa, OK to the late Joseph A. & Gertrude LaFortune. In 1942, she graduated from Central High School and later attended Northwestern University. While in high school she met the love...
David A. Ronk, M.D.
Nov 29, 2014
DAVID A. RONK, M.D. David Augustine Ronk died a week after his 69th birthday on November 29, 2014 at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa, OK. After a seven and a half year long battle with Multiple Myeloma, David (or "Dr. Ronk" to many) died in peace as the sun was setting on Saturday evening. Born in Baltimore, MD to Margaret...
Rev. William K. Skeehan
Nov 29, 2014
Father William Keally Skeehan, or "Father Bill" as he was familiarly known, passed away early Saturday morning November 29, 2014 just nine days before his 89th birthday. Father Bill was born on December 8, 1925 in Forest Hills, New York to Eva Mary Keally and Edward Michael Skeehan and was the youngest of five children. Members of St James Parish...
David Glaves
Nov 27, 2014
David Glaves took his last flight from home and touched the face of God Thursday, November 27, 2014. David was born in Quincy, Illinois on March 21, 1943 and grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. After college Dr. Edward Teller asked to have David join a team that worked on missile guidance systems in addition to working at Douglas supporting...
F. Vivian Allen
Nov 25, 2014
Frances Vivian Allen was born on December 23rd, 1921 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She passed to her heavenly reward November 25, 2014 just before her 93rd birthday. Vivian was preceded in death by her husband of 53 years, J.D. Allen of Collinsville. Vivian is survived by her eight children: Joe, Don, Patrick, Kenny and Greg Allen of Claremore, Janet Allen of...
